In addition to management requirements, each SOM undergraduate student must fulfill the following additional requirements:
Binghamton University has adopted a comprehensive General Education curriculum. This curriculum has broad goals. It is intended to help students develop:
an appreciation of and capacity for effective personal expression;
knowledge about various intellectual traditions;
an understanding of and respect for different peoples and civilizations;
knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world, achieved through active engagement with the methods and philosophy of natural science;
logical thinking, balanced skepticism, and tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty;
a knowledge of and appreciation for the arts and creative expression.
Note: Entering students may fulfill certain General Education requirements with Advanced Placement (AP) credits.
View/print a chart showing General Education Equivalencies for Advanced Placement Exams
View/print a sample Freshman General Education Planning Sheet
The minimum mathematics requirement for all SOM students is one semester of calculus. This may be satisfied by AP calculus taken while in high school, by a course transferred from another university, or by either of the Calculus courses offered by the Mathematics Department at BU. MATH 220 is a survey of calculus oriented towards management students. MATH 221 is the first semester of the normal three semester calculus sequence for math/science majors. Students who wish to take additional calculus or calculus-based coursework are required to take MATH 221 as MATH 220 does not satisfy the prerequisite for higher level MATH courses.
Management students are required to complete an introductory course in statistics. It is strongly advised that students enroll in CQS 112, which is the management-oriented statistics course offered by the school. Courses offered by the Math, Psychology or Economic Departments are acceptable, but a second course cannot be taken for non-management elective credit since it would be considered a duplicate course. Only one introductory statistics course may be taken towards the degree. upper level statistics courses from the Math Department can be used to fulfill non-introductory liberal arts coursework.
All SOM undergraduates are required to complete a minimum of three non-introductory liberal arts courses. A Harpur College course is considered non-introductory if according to the Binghamton University Undergraduate Bulletin it meets one of four criteria:
The course has a prerequisite course requirement.
The course is designated by the offering department to be an intermediate or advanced course.
The course is 'Not open to Freshman' or 'Open to Sophomores' or 'Open to Juniors and Seniors only'.
The course is numbered 300 or above.
Three credit transfer courses are evaluated separately and require a course prerequisite to be considered non-introductory.
The School of Management writing requirement consists of two courses in the liberal arts with a writing emphasis designation and three courses for students enrolled in the PriceWaterHouseCoopers Honors Program. These courses are available in all divisions of Harpur College and are identified in the Schedule of Classes by the 'C' designation. Please note: courses which carry a 'W' (writing) designation are recommended to improve a student's writing skills, but do not fulfill the SOM writing requirement. A combination of courses with a 'W' designation does not fulfill a 'C' course requirement.
